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Adventures in Food
- 3 Nov 2024 Five Types of Coffee
- 31 Jan 2025 The God Shot
- 12 Feb 2025 Travels With an Epicurean Zombie
- 1 Jan 2026 Desperately Seeking Coffee
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Diary of a Witch Doctor
- 20 Feb 2022 I'm Sure I Heard Something
- 10 July 2022 Rain
- 18 July 2022 The Furniture of My Mind
- 25 July 2022 One Of Those Days
- 12 Dec 2022 Adventures With Black Limes
- 7 May 2023 Musings on Chopping an Onion
- 2 June 2023 Caravaggio, Negative Space and Non-Existence.
- 21 Oct 2023 Musings on a Morning Drive
- 6 Nov 2023 A Bird’s Nest of Prayer Flags
- 8 Dec 2023 Memories in My Morning Macchiato
- 3 Feb 2024 Adventures in Tofu
- 17 Feb 2024 Petrichor, Rain, and My Washing
- 17 Mar 2024 Butter and the Paradox of Time
- 6 May 2024 And Yet More Rain
- 25 June 2024 The Poltergeist on my Roof
- 28 Nov 2024 My Computer on Holidays
- 11 Jan 2025 Memories of a year gone
- 12 Feb 2025 Travels With an Epicurean Zombie
- 12 Apr 2025 As Salty as the Mediterranean - Not
- 30 June 2025 My Writings This Month
- 14 Sept 2025 Not in Rome: Diary of A Witch Doctor
- 6 Oct 2025 Which Side of the Street?
- 8 Nov 2025 A Garden in Fiesole
- 1 Jan 2026 Desperately Seeking Coffee
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Travel Adventures
- 10 Sept 2023 Signs Along the Way
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Travel in Australia
- 16 Jan 2022 Surf's Up
- 17 July 2022 Sunrise in Yamba
- 30 Oct 2022 Seed pods, Fire and the Australian Bush
- 11 Feb 2024 Free things to do in Melbourne
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Travel in Australia - Melbourne
- 4 Sept 2022 Walking Melbourne Backwards
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Travel in Austria
- 8 Sept 2023 Finding Klimt
- Travel in Belgium
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Travel in Cambodia
- 24 May 2024 Angkor’s Forgotten Temples
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Travel in China
- 11 Nov 2023 Desperately Seeking Dumplings
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Travel in Croatia
- 22 Feb 2022 Walking the Walls of Dubrovnik
- 23 Aug 2024 The Other Spanish Steps
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Travel in Czechoslovakia
- 17 July 2023 Prague and my morning Becherovka
- 26 Feb 2024 The Loreta: A Convent Carried by an Angel
- 22 July 2025 A Cabinet of Curiosities
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Travel in Czechoslovakia - Prague
- 9 Aug 2022 King Wenceslas and His Vineyard
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Travel in England
- 31 July 2023 London in Four Photos
- 27 Oct 2023 Quiet Thoughts in London
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Travel in England - London
- 13 Sept 2022 Exploring Hyde Park
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Travel in France
- 2 Apr 2023 Memories of Paris
- 13 Oct 2023 A Mural in Marseille
- 22 July 2024 Exploring the Île St Louis
- 16 Feb 2025 Le Vieux Paris
- 4 Apr 2025 Mont St Michel
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Travel in Germany
- 16 Aug 2022 Drifting Along the Danube
- 20 Sept 2022 Views From My Balcony
- 21 Sept 2022 Headless in Bamberg
- 21 May 2023 Drifting along the Rhine
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Travel in Greece
- 26 Aug 2023 Discovering Corfu
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Travel in Hong Kong
- 15 May 2023 A Few Hong Kong Markets
- 26 Jan 2024 Snake Season, Hong Kong and Reading Newspapers
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Travel in India
- 30 Dec 2022 High in the Foothills of the Himalayas
- 12 Feb 2023 The Dancing monks of Diskit
- 26 Feb 2023 The Boats of Lake Dal
- 25 Nov 2023 Camels Along the Silk Road
- 30 Sept 2024 Riding A Chair-lift in Kashmir
- 26 Jan 2026 The Taj Mahal at Dawn
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Travel in India - Kashmir
- 28 Feb 2022 The Dawn Markets of Dal Lake
- 3 Oct 2022 Somewhere in Kashmir
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Travel in Italy
- 21 Jan 2023 Beneath the Duomo, Florence
- 19 Feb 2023 A Day Sailing the Cinque Terre
- 22 May 2023 Some Non-Touristy Ideas For Rome
- 10 June 2023 The Oltrarno, Forence
- 6 Aug 2023 It Began Here
- 21 Aug 2023 Gardens in Venice
- 4 Sept 2023 A Small Green Door
- 6 Sept 2023 An Angel, A Florentine Painting, and My Novel.
- 25 Sept 2023 The Piazza Limbo, Florence
- 25 Apr 2024 The Lions of Venice
- 3 Aug 2024 A Gondola U-Turn
- 4 June 2025 An Apartment in Florence
- 3 Aug 2025 Wandering in Venice
- 13 Sept 2025 A Walk With Dante in Florence
- 22 Sept 2025 Finding Leonardo in Fiesole
- 8 Nov 2025 A Garden in Fiesole
- 28 Nov 2025 A Traveller Not a Tourist in Rome
- 14 Dec 2025 The Marble Quarries of Carrara
- 20 Apr 2026 The Farnese Hercules
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Travel in Italy - Florence
- 27 July 2022 Lunch at the Mercato Centrale
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Travel in Italy - Other
- 8 Sept 2022 Exploring Civitavecchia
- 2 June 2023 Caravaggio, Negative Space and Non-Existence.
- 13 May 2026 In the Footsteps of St Francis
- 18 May 2026 A Tale of Two Anatomy Theatres
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Travel in Italy - Venice
- 24 Feb 2022 The Traghetti of Venice
- 20 June 2022 The Markets of Venice
- 13 Aug 2022 Venice, Gondolas and Me
- 18 Aug 2022 Venice and the Church of the Skiing Jesus
- 11 Sept 2022 A Bookshop in Venice
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Travel in Japan
- 26 Feb 2022 Saiko Iyashi no Sato Nemba: A Village in the Foothills of Mt Fuji
- 9 Sept 2024 In Search of a Japanese Curry
- 2 Nov 2024 Memories of Hiroshima
- 25 Apr 2025 Eating Japan.
- 16 June 2025 Why I loved Nagasaki
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Travel in Japan - Elsewhere
- 17 Sept 2022 The Faces of Japan
- 16 Jan 2023 The Ancient Forests of Yakushima Island
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Travel in Japan - Tokyo
- 24 Sept 2022 A Garden in the Rain
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Travel in Laos
- 9 May 2023 The Monks of Laos
- 28 Dec 2024 The Cave of 1000 Buddhas
- 5 July 2025 The Kingdom Of A Million Elephants And The White Parasol.
- 24 Oct 2025 One Morning in Laos
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Travel in New Zealand
- 29 July 2022 A Volcano, A Dinosaur and Clouds.
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Travel in Singapore
- 22 Aug 2022 Braving the Doctor Fish of Singapore
- 10 Oct 2025 Overlooked in Singapore
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Travel in Thailand
- 29 Jan 2026 Ayutthaya, Capital of Siam
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Travel in Vietnam
- 2 Aug 2023 A Bamboo Bridge to Nowhere
- 5 Nov 2023 The Dragon of Halong
- 25 Nov 2023 Saigon: In The Footsteps Of Graham Greene
- 14 Feb 2024 Basket boats of China Beach
- 10 Aug 2025 Wandering Hoi An
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Travel in Vietnam - Hoi An
- 20 Aug 2022 Dawn in Hoi An
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Travel in the Maldives
- 5 Mar 2026 Dolphins at Sunset.
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Travel in the South Pacific
- 17 May 2024 Fire in the Rain
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book reviews
- 5 Feb 2022 Cover Her Face - PD James
- 11 Aug 2022 The Kappillan of Malta
- 14 Aug 2022 Montalbano's First Case - Andrea Camilleri
- 28 Jan 2023 Something To Read in Hong Kong
- 22 July 2023 The Poisons of Agatha Christie
- 17 Nov 2023 Fantômas — A Review
- 13 Jan 2024 Some reading suggestions for Florence
- 30 July 2024 The Quiet American
- 23 Sept 2024 e.e Cummings: The Enormous Room
- 26 Oct 2024 Leave it to Psmith — P.G. Wodehouse
- 21 June 2025 Anna Karenina
- 26 Sept 2025 The Day OF The Triffids
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medical history
- 22 July 2023 The Poisons of Agatha Christie
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my books and poetry
- 6 Sept 2022 The Gods Themselves
- 19 Sept 2022 Songs of a Sad Summer
- 5 Mar 2023 A Poetry Reading
- 8 May 2023 Cuttings
- 16 July 2023 An Unseen Parade - A Poem
- 4 Aug 2023 A Cup of Memories - a Poem
- 8 Oct 2023 Drought
- 9 Jan 2024 Flowing
- 25 Mar 2024 I Thought I Could Write A Poem
- 30 Aug 2024 Mist
- 10 May 2025 Memories - A Poem
- 29 July 2025 An Old Armchair
- 30 Aug 2025 Two Mountains
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poetry
- 19 Oct 2025 A Deluge of Tears
- 25 Nov 2025 A Dry Sadness in December